In the Open Graves, Open Minds Project, we unearthed depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, before embracing shapeshifters and other supernatural beings and their worlds. OGOM opens up questions concerning genre, gender, hybridity, cultural change, and other realms. The Project extends to all narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, the fabulous, and the magical.

Angela Carter: Children’s books and fairy tales

A great piece here from the TLS: Angela Carter reviewing children’s picture book versions of fairy tales with typical earthy wit, bemoaning the toning down of the more brutal aspects of their sources. And a saddening extract from a review on young women in US urban gangs.